Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

Institutional activities in 2004
Education
For 2004 the Compagnia’s commitment has developed in two areas of interest identified as priorities:
the development of the university system, to which approximately 40% of the total grant was applied,
and the promotion of training policies, activities and methods which received approximately 30% of
the sector resources; that amount includes a grant for € 3.5 million for the activities of the Foundation
for Schools in 2005.
The total grant in the Education sector includes an award of € 4 million for the possible construction
of a Higher European Interdisciplinary Institute for Human Genetics (ISEIGU) and approximately
€ 1.2 million in favour of the newly constituted Collegio Carlo Alberto Foundation for activities in 2005
and for the refurbishment works for the building which houses the Collegio (for both the initiatives see
also the Research sector).
Development of the university system
The Compagnia’s commitment to university activities concentrates on the development of the Turin
university structures: The main project supported in this sphere relates to the construction of an
integrated computer system of library and documentary resources, and the library services of the
University of Turin.
The interest in the development of innovative forms and “models” of university colleges was
confirmed, with the support for the project of building renovation of the San Paolo section of the
Renato Einaudi University College in Turin.
The attention to the reinforcement of the local university system is also translated into support for the
internationalisation of the Turin Universities through the contribution to advanced training courses
which attract students and teachers from overseas, as the Master’s Degree of the CORIPE Piemonte
(the Consortium for Research and Life Long Training) the doctorate in Institutions, Law and
Economics implemented at the Carlo Alberto, the new post-graduate course on Law and Business in
Europe, that the IUSE – University Institute for European Studies will inaugurate in 2005 together with
the Centro Studi sul Federalismo (Research Centre on Federalism), and the initiatives in co-operation
between the UN campus and Turin University.
Alongside the grants for the city university structures, the commitment in favour of university activities
in other geographical areas assumed growing weight. These are established in areas of specific
interest for the Compagnia or those who have started up cooperation with permanent organisations
of the Compagnia or with Turin universities. Support for the Federico II University in Naples is
particularly significant and a specific information schedule is provided in that respect.
In the field of advanced training at present three permanent organisations of the Compagnia are
operating, in respect of which see the appropriate sections: the Collegio Carlo Alberto Foundation at
Collegio Carlo Alberto in Moncalieri, which houses the Master’s Degrees of CORIPE Piedmont and
the doctorates of the University of Turin in the economics field: the Istituto Superiore Mario Boella
(ISMB), in partnership between the Compagnia and the Polytechnic of Turin in the field of ICT
(Information and Communication Technologies); the Istituto Superiore sui Sistemi Territoriali per
l’Innovazione - SiTI, in partnership with Turin Polytechnic.
In 2004, in particular, the Compagnia supported the “Polimedia” project, implemented by the ISMB
in co-operation with the Polytechnic that provides inter alia for the creation of a centre for multimedia
content aimed at supporting research activities and high level training in the sector.
While the contribution to advanced training in the economic-financial field is concentrated on
Master’s Degrees and Doctorates established at the Carlo Alberto, in the field of the humanities and
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